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Russia Begins Making Second Covid-19 Vaccine as Cases Spike

  • Vaccine developed by Vector hasn’t completed Phase 3 trials
  • Kremlin is bypassing safety protocol to speed development

    

Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
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Russia has begun production of a second Covid-19 vaccine that hasn’t completed trials as the Kremlin rushes to develop a shield against the pandemic.